The Russian society "Znanie" launched the fourth season of the country's main educational award Znanie.Priya. 

Applications will be accepted until September 30, 2024 on the official website. You can register yourself, projects, companies and other people who have made a significant contribution to enlightenment in 2023-2024. 

In the fourth season of the project there are nineteen nominations, two of which are new. The nomination "For Contribution to the Preservation of Family Values" is timed to the Year of the Family in Russia. Applicants can be educators and projects that contribute to strengthening the institution of the family. The nomination "For Contribution to Education in the Field of Ecology and Tourism" is for those who develop the tourist image of Russian regions and the culture of hospitality, and increase the environmental responsibility of the population. 

Beginning in 2023, the award also recognizes foreigners in the Foreign Educator of the Year category and teens 12 to 17 years old in the Young Educator of the Year category. 

All applications will be evaluated in absentia by an expert committee from among the partners of the Znanie Society. The short-list of the award will be formed by the expert council, which will include government officials, candidates and doctors of science, heads of companies, youth organizations and other professionals in their fields. 

One hundred nominees will undergo online public speaking training to prepare for an in-person defense of their outreach efforts in front of an esteemed panel of judges. 

Previously, the jury included Dmitry Peskov, Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation - Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Sergey Kravtsov, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Education of the Russian Federation, Yuri Borisov, Director General of the State Corporation "Roscosmos", Herman Gref, President and Chairman of the Board of Sberbank, Konstantin Khabensky, Artistic Director of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, People's Artist of Russia, Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the National Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and others. Mikhail Kovalchuk and others. 

The winners in the People's Choice nomination will be determined by open voting in a mini-application in the VKontakte social network. 

The winner of the "First Choice" partner nomination of the First Movement will be chosen in a closed vote of the Federal Council of Firsts, which includes children and teenagers from all regions of the country. 

The winners of the nineteen categories will be announced at an awards ceremony in 2025. 

In 2023, Knowledge.Prize gathered over 18 thousand applications from 89 regions of Russia. Then the educational award became an international one: educators from 34 countries from near and far abroad participated.